cloth in the style broderie Anglaise, with many gaps. Imported from Austria and prestigous because expensive; they are wearing lace

laf laf

absurd or comical

laff

means Laugh

lai

lie

lai lai

never or not in a million years

lai lai to lai lai

never ever

lailai

never! {Yoruba}

lakpa

deny; refuse

Laliga; La liga

Spanish premier league; La liga premier league table

land

to hit or to arrive

langalanga

curved piece of iron used to swipe at grass and knock it down. an extraordinarily ineffective tool, often used by schoolchildren

lap

carry someone on your lap during a car ride

lap{s}

thigh{s}, lap; Chicken laps for sale. {notice} She put the baby on her laps. The deceased was seated at the back of the vehicle carrying a fellow student on her laps; She took a gallon containing kerosene, doused some on the girl's hands and laps and set her ablaze.

las gidis

alternative name for the Lagos

lasgidi

lasgidi or gidi means lagos {the former captal of Nigeria}

lash

to have sex

last

as in English but in temporal expressions; it follows the noun Sunday last, I went to Kaduna

last

final, referring to price of goods; what is your last price? The price is 100 Naira, last.

late

dead, of people {but used without 'the' and more informally} late Chuks gave me this book can be intensified. The very late Emir of Gwandu, therefore, one who died forty years ago.

lately

late He came lately

launch

to use a newly bought product for the for the first time.

launching

Nigerian ceremony to introduce a new publication, society or institution where money is raised through public pledges; They are having a launching for the book.

lean

thin, but with implication that leanness is caused by troubles. Being thin does not have a positive cultural value in West Africa

learner

someone that is inexperienced or clueless

leather {leda}

plastic {bag} put it in a leather {bag}

leave

to leave off, to stop He should leave chasing girls

left lefty

a left-handed person

left-hand drive

hair-style where the hair is plaited into cornrows on the left of the head; also 'right-hand drive'

leg

leg, but also 'ankle', 'foot' Wipe your leg on the door-mat, please! or My leg is paining me too much; I have twisted my ankle Adapted from African languages where leg often stands for other parts of the lower body. Parallel usages of hand to include arm

leg, to have long

to be influential, to have connections

legbere

a novice

legedis benz

{derived from Mercedes Benz} someone without a car and who walks everywhere.

legedisbenz

someone who walks everywhere because they don't own a car

lego

to leave or to allow

legxus

someone who walks everywhere because they don't own a car

legz

shoe.

leke leke

an all white bird called cattle egret

leke leke

cattle egret

lekpa

someone who is slim; a thin person {usually a female}

lekpa

a thin/slider person

lekpa shandy

very slander person

lem

to eat {verb}; food {noun} {e.g. Once I reach house, I will lem garri and beans}

lemb

to eat {e.g. Let's go! I want to lemb, my belle is empty}

lend out

to lend

lepa

skinny bony person

lepka shandy

very slander person

let my people go

this is when someone berely passes an exam

lette

food {noun}; to eat food {verb}

levels

Status in society or within a group of friends.

lick {soup}

eat "soup" While eating with me, you are licking the soup, but I am eating the porrid

large shrimp {Macrobrachium vollenhovenii} Nigeria has only shrimps, no true crayfish or lobsters

local

fraud that originates and terminates in Nigeria

local

provincial, unsophisticated he is a local man!

local Maggi

flat cakes made from the fermented seeds of the locust tree and used as a soup condiment; Maggi, a commercial stock cube sold widely in West Africa

locker

school desk with shelves, usually with an opening to keep books in.

lockito

uninformed; not well traveled

locust

locust-bean tree Parkia biglobosa. N.B. locust as an insect is usually 'cricket'

lodge

hotel; 'guest inn'

loki

somebody who is not sophisticated or rash. this comes from the word LOCAL - omebody who has not been around da block or da country, to know what's really good or whats in fashion {e.g. allow the girl, she be loki thats why she just dey wear leggins}

lol

pity

Lolagbola

trade-name for timber from the tree Oxystigma oxyphyllum

lonely

lonely, also alone If we go, she will be lonely in the house. If we go, she will be left on her own in the house. The two meanings may well merge in African culture.

long

long

long leg

undue influence for favour

long leg

well connected

long longy

a tall person

long thing

empty promises; story; long story

long throat

glutton

long throat

greed eater; always want to eat when others are eating

longa throat

greedy; unsatisfied person

long-leg

influence, personal connection in power; He gained his position through long-leg; Vernacular e.g. Hausa dogon kafa

look for ur own life

doesn't care about his or her life

loose

to be loose, to come loose, to untie; The thing has loosed. it has become loose. Loose it untie it.

loss

to be lost, as in don loss or get loss; The thing has got loss. it has got lost Pidgin

lost

loss lost of thousands of Naira.

Lugard

old-fashioned; This your shoe is Lugard

luggages

as Standard English but pluralised; Luggages carried at owner's risk. {Notice}

luxury bus

large coach as opposed to bus, usually applied to small vans also luxurious bus

lwkmd

a facebook abbreviation for 'laugh wan kill me die'... used when something is very funny and you can barely stop laughing {e.g. omo dis show we dey watch go kill me oo..lwkmd!}

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